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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does York warn Gaunt in Act 2, Scene 1?
(a) That Bolingbroke is confronting very harsh conditions in his exile.
(b) That his wife is going to leave him.
(c) That Richard will ignore him.
(d) That Mowbray is going to try to kill him.

2. Who addresses Bolingbroke as "Lord Hereford" in Act 2, Scene 3?
(a) Northumberland.
(b) York.
(c) Sir Pierce of Exton.
(d) Berkeley.

3. What do the characters decide to do at the end of Act 2, Scene 4?
(a) They will kill themselves.
(b) They will wait.
(c) They will invade Ireland on their own.
(d) They will not stay.

4. What is Bolingbroke's banishment reduced to?
(a) Twenty years.
(b) Six years.
(c) Fifteen years.
(d) Ten years.

5. What is Bolingbroke's title now that Gaunt is dead?
(a) The Duke of Kent.
(b) Lord Aumerle.
(c) Sir Henry of Wales.
(d) Lord Lancaster.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is fleeing straight to Richard after learning of Bolingbroke's arrival?

2. Where does Act 2, Scene 4 take place?

3. What is the setting in the beginning of Act 2, Scene 3?

4. What is the setting of Act 3, Scene 1?

5. How many lines are in Act 3, Scene 1?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Richard's kingship represented in Act 1, Scene 1?

2. What is the overall mood of Act 2, Scene 2?

3. What does Mowbray admit to during the feud of the first scene?

4. What happens at the end of Act 5, Scene 1? What does this say of York?

5. How does Act 5, Scene 5 end?

6. How does Richard respond immediately after learning of Gaunt's death? Who responds the harshest to this news, and what does he say to Richard?

7. Which other scene in the play is Act 4, Scene 1 most comparable to? Why?

8. Why doesn't Richard trust Bolingbroke's relationship with the people of England?

9. What do Richard and the Queen seem to be more pained by: losing the monarchy or each other? Why?

10. How both Richard and Bolingbroke speak in Act 1, Scene 4? What is different about their speech habits from before?

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